LIS 2226

Moving Image and Sound Archives

Supplementary Readings


Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5

Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10

Week 1

Edmondson, Ray.  Audiovisual Archiving:  Philosophy and Principles.  Paris:  UNESCO, 2004.  http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001364/136477e.pdf

International Federation of Film Archives.  Code of Ethics. FIAF, 1998.  http://www.fiafnet.org/uk/members/ethics.cfm

Film Preservation 1993:  A Study of the Current State of American Film Preservation.  Vol. 1:  Report.  Washington, DC:  Library of Congress, 1993.   http://www.loc.gov/film/study.html

Gitelman, Lisa.  Scripts, Grooves & Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.  Ch. 4 (pp. 148-183).  P 96 T422 U6343 1999

Millard, Andre.  America On Record: A History of Recorded Sound.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.  Ch. 6-7 (pp. 115-157).  (An excellent book, worth buying if you can find it.)  ML1055 M47 1995

Morton, David.  Off the Record:  The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America.  New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 1999. TK7881.4 .M66 2000  Ch. 1,  pp. 13-47.

Redefining Film Preservation:  A National Plan. Washington: Library of Congress, 1994. Hillman Library Gov Docs or http://www.loc.gov/film/plan.html

Sterne, Jonathan.  The Audible Past:  Cultural Origins of Sound Reproducation.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 2003. Ch. 6. TK 7881.4 .S733 2003

Television and Video Preservation 1997:  A Report on the Current State of American Television and Video Preservation.  Vol. 1:  Report.  Washington, DC:  Library of Congress, 1997. http://www.loc.gov/film/tvstudy.html

Winston, Brian.  Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography & Television.  London: BFI, 1996.  Introduction, Ch. 1-3 (pp. 1-87).  P 96 T42W55 1996

Week 2

Archival Moving Image Materials. 2nd ed. "Glossary."  Library of Congress, 2000.  http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/arch0342.htm

Bachman, Rebecca. "Video Preservation: Glossary of Terms," http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/bavc/bavcterm.html (19 July 1999).

Ed Reitan's Color Television History [website], http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/index.html

Bordwell, David, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson.  The Classical Hollywood Cinema:  Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (New York:  Columbia University Press, 1985).  Skim ch. 19-23, pp. 243-308. PN1993.5.U6 B655 1985

Copeland, Peter.  "Forensic Evidence in Historical Sound-Recordings."  Aural History:  Essays on Recorded Sound.  Ed. by Andy Linehan.  London:  British Library, 2001.  ML 1055 I58 2001

Fielding, Raymond, ed.  A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1967.  (pp. 1-22, 49-59. 118-119, 125-140).  qTR 848 F5

Fossati, Giovanna.  "When Cinema Was Coloured."  All the Colours of the World:  Colours in Early Mass Media, 1900-1930. Reggio Emilia, It.: Edizioni Diabasis, 1998. 121-132.  TR 853 T88 1998 (Other articles from this book are also highly recommended).

 The Film Preservation Guide:  The Basics for Libraries, Archives, and Museums.  San Francisco:  National Film Preservation Foundation, 2004. http://www.filmpreservation.org/  Glossary, pp. 99-108.  TR 886.3 F58 2003

Screensound Australia.  Technical Glossary of Common Audiovisual Terms. http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/glossary.nsf/Main/Glossary+Index?OpenDocument

Winston, Brian.  Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography & Television.  London: BFI, 1996.  Introduction, Ch. 4-5 (pp. 88-118).  P 96 T42W55 1996

Week 3

Barnouw, Erik.  A History of Broadcasting in the United States.  3 vols.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1966-1970.  HE 8698 B262

Barnouw, Erik.  Tube of Plenty:  The Evolution of American Television.  2nd rev. ed.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1990.  Ch. 1-3 (pp. 1-148), skim rest of book.  HE 8700.8 B37 1990

Douglas, Susan.  Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.  HE 8698 D685 1987

Essays on Recorded Sound.  Ed. by Andy Lineham.  London:  British Library, 2001.  ML 1055 I58 2001

Fells, Nick, Pauline Donachy and Catherine Owen.  Creating Digital Audio Resources:  A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford:  Oxbow, 2002. TK 7881.65. F45 2002

Gomery, Douglas.  The Hollywood Studio System.  New York:  St. Martins Press, 1986.  PN 1993.5 U6 G58 1986b

Gronow, Pekka and Ilpo Saunio.  An International History of the Recording Industry.  London: Cassell, 1998.  Ch. 6-8 (pp. 95-212).  ML 3790 G7813 1998

Houston, Penelope. Keepers of the Frame:  The Film Archives. London: British Film Institute, 1994.  PN1993.4 H68 1994

Mann, Sarah Ziebell. “American Moving Image Preservation:  Defining the Preservation Landscape (1967-1977).” The Moving Image 1.2 (Fall 2001):  1-20.

 Marco, Guy. Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States. New York, Garland, 1993.  (ML102 S67E5 1993; Reference book in Music Library).

Rosen, Robert.  "The UCLA Film & Television Archive:  A Retrospective Look."  The Moving Image 2.2 (2002):  116-121.

Roud, Richard. A Passion for Films:  Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française. New York:  Viking Press, 1983.  PN1998 A3L3649 1983

Trope, Alison.  "Le Cinéma Pour le Cinéma:  Making a Museum of the Moving Image."  The Moving Image 1.1 (2001):  29-67.

Wasko, Janet. Hollywood in the Information Age. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1995. Ch. 1-4 (pp. 1-69).  PN1993.5 U6W37 1994

Wasson, Haidee.  "The Cinematic Subtext of the Modern Museum:  Alfred H. Barr and MoMA's Film Archive."  The Moving Image 1.1 (2001):  2-28

Week 4

Fielding, Raymond.  The American Newsreel, 1911-1967.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.  PN 4888 M6 F5 (Bradford Campus)

Kattelle, Alan D.  Home Movies:  A History of the American Industry, 1897-1979.  Nashua, NH:  Transition Publishing, 2000.  TR 896 K38 2000

Linehan, Andy.  Aural History:  Essays on Recorded Sound.  London:  British Library, 2001.  ML 1055 I58 2001

McGreevey, Tom, and Joanne L. Yeck. Our Movie Heritage. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. TR886.3 M37 1997

Morton, David.  Off the Record:  The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America.  New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 1999. TK 7881.4 .M66 2000 Ch. 5,  pp. 136-170.

Nicholson, Heather Norris.  "Regionally Specific, Globally Significant:  Who's Responsible for the Regional Record?" The Moving Image 1.2 (Fall 2001):  152-163.

 Schatz, Thomas.  The Genius of the System:  Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.  Skim for background on the studio system.  PN 1993.5 U65S3 1988

Slide, Anthony. Nitrate Won't Wait:  A History of Film Preservation in the United States. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992. TR 886.3 S55 1992

Smith, Ken.  Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films, 1945-1970.  New York:  Blast Books, 1999.  Available from instructor (will loan for photocopying purposes).


Week 5

Brown, Harold.  Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aids to Identification.  Brussels:  FIAF, 1990.  Available from instructor for photocopying purposes.

Grimm, Charles “Buckey.”  “A History of Early Nitrate Testing and Storage, 1910-1945."  The Moving Image 1.2 (Fall 2001):  21-38.

Kodak.  The Book of Film Care. Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak, 1983.

Pickett, A. G., and M. M. Lemcoe.  Preservation and Storage of Sound Recordings.  Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1959.  TS2301.P3 P5

Schüller, Dietrich.  “Sound Tapes and ‘Vinegar Syndrome.’”  Phonographic Bulletin 54 (1989):  29-31.

Smith, Leslie.  “Factors Governing the Long-Term Stability of Polyester-Based Recording Media.”  Restaurator 12 (1991):  201-18.

“UNC Archivists Bake Some Tapes:  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faced With Rapidly Deteriorating Sound Recordings.”  Wilson Library Bulletin 66 (1992):  11.

Warren, Richard, Jr.  “Handling of Sound Recordings.”  ARSC Journal 25.2 (1994):  139-62.

Warren, Richard. "Storage of Sound Recordings." ARSC Journal 24.2 (1993): 130-175.

Week 6

Connors, Thomas.  "Appraising Public Television Programs:  Toward an Interpretive and Comparative Evaluation Model."  American Archivist 63 (2000):  152-174.

Waffen, Leslie.  "The Art of Appraisal and Selection of Sound Recordings for Archival Retention." Selection in Sound Archives: Collected Papers from IASA Conference Sessions. Helen P. Harrison, ed. Special Publication No. 5 Milton Keynes, England: International Association of Sound Archives, 1984.

Zimmerman, Patricia.  “Morphing History into Histories:  From Amateur Film to the Archive of the Future.”  The Moving Image 1.1 (Spring 2001):  109-130.


Week 7

Bergeron, Rosemary.  "Identifying and Documenting the Small Gauge Image."  The Moving Image 2.2 (2002):  25-40.

Hertzum, Morten.  "Requests for Information from a Film Archive:  A Case Study of Multimedia Retrieval."  Journal of Documentation 59.2 (2003).  Available online through PittCat.

Roederer, Charlotte. "Copyright Status of Historical Recordings:  Protecting and Promoting the Public Domain." ARSC Journal 23.1 (1992): 30-34.


Week 8

Cox, Mike, Linda Tadic, and Ellen Mulder.  Descriptive Metadata for Television. London:  Focal Press, 2006.  Z 666.7 C69 2006

Crane, Rosi.  “Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?  Cataloguing and Indexing in the Natural History Unit Film Library.”  The Indexer 14.1 (1984): 23-26.

Haynes, Kathleen, Lynda Lee Kaid, and Charles E. Rand.  "The Political Commercial Archive:  Management of Moving Image and Sound Recordings."  American Archivist 59 (1996):  48-61.

Rasmussen, Edie.  “Indexing Images.”  Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 32 (1997):  169-196.

Taves, Brian.  "Toward a Comprehensive Genre Taxonomy."  The Moving Image 1.1 (2001): 131-150.  

Thomas, David H. Archival Information Processing for Sound Recordings. MLA Technical Report no. 21. Music Library Association, 1992.  ML 111.5 T5 1992

Turner, James M.  “Representing and Accessing Information in the Stockshot Database at the National Film Board of Canada.”  Canadian Journal of Information Science 15.4 (1990):  1-22.

Turner, James M. and Abby Goodrum.  "Modeling Videos as Works."  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 33.3-4 (2002):  27-38.


Week 9

Besser, Howard. “Digital Longevity.” Handbook for Digital Projects:  A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Ed. Maxine Sitts. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000. 155-66. http://nedcc.org/oldnedccsite/digital/dighome.htm

 Desmet, Noël, and Paul Read. “The Desmetcolor Method for Restoring Tinted and Toned Films.” All the Colours of the World:  Colours in Early Mass Media, 1900-1930. Reggio Emilia, It.: Edizioni Diabasis, 1998. 147-50.  TR 853 T88 1998

Friend, Michael. “Film/Digital/Film.” Journal of Film Preservation 50 (1995): 36-49.

"Issues of Preservation and Media Production:  New Paradigms for the Digital Age.”  Ed. Ben Davis.  Digital Storytelling.  Los Angeles:  Razorfish, 16 May 2000.  Transcript.  http://www.digitaleverything.com/rr024_film_transcript.pdf.

Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 40.3 (2001).  Special issue on electronic media preservation, including technology- and video-based installation art.  Issue available from instructor for photocopying purposes.

Read, Paul.  “Tinting and Toning Techniques and their Adaption for the Restoration of Archive Film.” All the Colours of the World:  Colours in Early Mass Media, 1900-1930. Reggio Emilia, It.: Edizioni Diabasis, 1998. 157-167.  TR 853 T88 1998

Welch, Walter L.  “Preservation and Restoration of Authenticity in Sound Recordings.”  Library Trends 21 (1972):  83-100.


Week 10

Association of Cinema and Video Laboratories.  Recommended Procedures for Motion Picture and Video Laboratory Services.  5th ed. http://www.acvl.org/acvl_manual/index.html

Case, Dominic. Motion Picture Film Processing. London: Focal, 1985. TR886.2 C37 1985.  Skim.

Happé, L. Bernard. Your Film & the Lab.  2nd ed.  London:  Focal Press, 1983. TR886.2 .H36 1983.  Skim.

Walden, Sarah. The Ravaged Image, or, How to Ruin Masterpieces by Restoration. New York: St. Martin's, 1985.  ND 1650 W35 1985b